‘’One of you is a devil…Judas Iscariot.’’ (St. John 6:71,72)
The Following is taken from The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda:
“The demons at once took possession of the soul of Judas and brought it down to hell. His entrails burst from the body hanging upon the tree. (Acts 1:18). All that saw this stupendous punishment of the perfidious and malicious disciple for his treason, were filled with astonishment and dread. The body remained hanging by the neck for three days, exposed to the view of the public. During that time the Jews attempted to take it down from the tree and bury it in secret, for it was a sight apt to cause great confusion to the Pharisees and priests, who could not refute such a testimony of his wickedness. But no efforts of theirs sufficed to drag or separate the body from its position on the tree until the three days passed, when according to the dispensation of divine justice, the demons themselves snatched the body from the tree and brought it to his soul, in order that both might suffer eternal punishment in the profoundest abyss of hell. Since what I have been made to know of the pains and chastisement of Judas, is worthy of fear inspiring attention, I will according to command reveal what has been shown me concerning it.
Among the obscure caverns of the infernal prisons was a very large one, arranged for more horrible chastisements than others, and which was still unoccupied; for the demons had been unable to cast any soul into it, although their cruelty had induced them to attempt it many times from the time of Cain until that day. All hell had remained astonished at the failure of these attempts, being entirely ignorant of the mystery, until the arrival of the soul of Judas, which they readily succeeded in hurling and burying in this prison never before occupied by any of the damned. The secret of it was that this cavern of greater torments and fiercer fires of hell, from the creation of the world, had been destined for those, who, after having received baptism would damn themselves by the neglect of the Sacraments, the doctrine, the passion and Death of the Saviour, and the intercession of his most holy Mother. *(Bad Catholics and fallen away Catholics). As Judas had been the first one who had so signally participated in these blessings, and as he had so fearfully misused them, he was also the first to suffer the torments of this place, prepared for him and his imitators and followers.
This mystery I was commanded to reveal more particularly for a dreadful warning to all Christians, and especially to priests, prelates and religious, who are accustomed to treat more familiarity the body and blood of Christ Our Lord, and who, by their office and state are his closer friends. In order to avoid blame I would like to find words and expressions sufficiently strong to make an impression on our unfeeling obduracy, so that we all may take a salutary warning and be filled with the fear of the punishments awaiting all bad Christians according to the state each one of us occupies. The demons tormented Judas with inexpressible cruelty, because he persisted in the betrayal of his Master, by whose Passion and Death they were vanquished and despoiled of the possession of the world. The wrath which they had conceived against the Savior and his Blessed Mother, they wreak, as far as is allowed them, on all those who imitate the traitorous disciple and who follow him in his contempt of the evangelical law, of the Sacraments, and of the fruits of the Redemption. And in this the demons are but executing just punishment on those members of the Mystical Body of Christ, and who have voluntarily drifted away and delivered themselves over to the accursed hate and implacable fury of his enemies. As the instrument of divine justice, they chastise the soul for their ingratitude toward their Redeemer. Let the children of the Church consider well this truth, for it cannot fail to move the hearts and induce them to evade such a lamentable fate.’’ – Thus are the words of Venerable Mary of Agreda, from THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD, Book 3, page 518-519.
Let us remember our last end, and act accordingly, that is, by keeping the commandments of God. “In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.” Ecclus. 7:40. Drbo.org
“None of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scriptures may be fulfilled.” St. John 17:12. What Scripture? Psalm 108: “When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. May his days be few; and his bishopric let another take… And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones…” verses 7 through 20. Terrible was the curse that Judas brought on his family by his sinful life, his wife and his children. And what about us? Are our sinful lives cursing our family?
“He indeed possessed a field of iniquity.” Acts 1:18; and “His bishopric let another take.” vs.20.
“Better for that man had he never been born.” St . Matthew 26:24. Woe to those greedy prelates who occupy their positions only for honor and money! Woe to those negligent prelates, who by their silence allow so much immodesty in the churches, and sacrilegious Communions! So many abuses in the liturgy! Judas had lost the faith. The Apostles said, “Is it I , Lord?” fearing they might be the one to betray the Lord, but Judas answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” St. Matthew 26:22, 25. Judas was the first Catholic to leave Mass right after Holy Communion. ”And when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. [27] And after the morsel, Satan entered into him…He therefore having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.” John 13:30. How many Catholics walk out the door right after Holy Communion. The Mass is not over, and they have not yet received the priest’s blessing, which the Lord ratifies in heaven.. What’s the hurry to get out of God’s house? Do they have a better place to go? The Holy Eucharist is the greatest treasure of heaven, and they have not even time to kneel down and talk to the Lord for awhile, asking him for all the graces they stand in need. How will this rudeness be answered for on the day of judgement?
- One priest noted in his sermon that fallen away Catholics, when they die, will be judged as Catholics, not protestants, because in the Catholic faith they were taught the truth, and turned away from it. They were taught it’s a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday, for example, but they did it anyway. They were taught that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and yet they turned away from him, even though in the Holy Bible Jesus adamantly affirmed it was His real flesh and blood, and solemnly stated we would not have life without it. Here is what he said, “Amen, amen, I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh and drink his blood, you shall have no life in you.” St. John 6:54. ”No life in you,” he says. In other words, if you die with no life in you, then you cannot be saved. And after they have been away so long, they see nothing wrong with it. But even though they forgot the teaching, God does not forget. St. Alphonsus said, “Why is it if God enlightens every man who comes into the world, there are so many in darkness? Because they wish it. They turn their eyes away from the light.”
- A CAREFUL FATHER I WANT TO BE https://motherofgodlibrary.org/2020/01/23/a-careful-father-i-want-to-be/
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